Yahoo! Developer Network
Yahoo! Developer Network
YDN Tuesdays are a way to meet and hear technical presentations from Yahoo experts for free. They will be held on the first Tuesday of every month throughout 2009.
3rd February: James Broad: PHP, oAuth & Web Services
3rd March: Jose Palazon: PHP Security
7th April: Neil Crosby: Front End automated testing
5th May: Dirk Ginader: Web Accessibility
2nd June: Ted Drake: Yahoo! BOSS, Build your Own Search Service
7th July: Christian Heilmann: Placemaker
4th August: Steve Marshall: Code Generation in Action
1st September: Neil Crosby: Rapid Prototyping and Data Munging with Yahoo! Pipes
6th October: Ricardo Varela: Introduction to data processing with Hadoop and Pig
17th Nov:Todd Kloots: More Accessible User Interfaces with ARIA
The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups. Yahoo! APIs let developers tap into Yahoo!'s world-class data and infrastructure to help power their businesses and integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and interesting place for everyone.
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Rapid Prototyping & Data Munging with Yahoo! Pipes
Featuring Neil Crosby
In this podacst Neil demonstrates, how Yahoo! Pipes can be used to quickly and easily play with data on the web. Neil shows, how easy it is to use Yahoo! Pipes graphical interface to take data from multiple sources and make it useful for you.
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Code Generation in Action
Featuring Steve Marshall
What if there was a way to write a fraction of the volume of code you currently write without losing any functionality, and massively increasing code quality (can you say '100% test coverage')?
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Placemaker
Featuring Christian Heilmann
In this video, Christian Heilmann introduces Yahoo! Placemaker. According to chris, Yahoo! Placemaker is a web service API. "You give it a URL to get data from or a text to extract geographical information from". He explains the reasons and the need for a tool like placemaker.
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Yahoo! BOSS, Build your Own Search Service
Featuring Ted Drake
Yahoo! BOSS is an API that gives developers access to Yahoo’s search index. Unlike similar search API’s, BOSS gives you much more control over how you use the data. You can mash it with other sources, re-order the ranking, change the appearance, or do whatever it takes to make your site special....
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Tom Morris - Lightning Talk
Tom Morris starts his talk by describing the semantic web as a long promised elixir. He showed examples of queries that can be executed against the semantic web services.
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Ted Drake - Unlocking the Secrets of BOSS
This talk is a quick overview of the basic functionality of the “Build your Own Service Service” (BOSS) API, and also highlights some of the more interesting features. The goal of BOSS is to foster innovation . . .
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Joe Walker-Introduction to Bespin
Bespin is a Mozilla Labs Experiment to build a code editor in a web browser that Open Web and Open Source developers could love. It is built using the latest HTML 5 features like canvas, web-workers, and web-sockets. Bespin also provides collaboration and version control integration.
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Dav Glass - YUI3
Dav Glass gives the hackers the tools they need to quickly build their Hack by using the Yahoo! User Interface Library 3.x.
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Martin Barnes - Yahoo! GeoPlanet. Exploring Places without Maps
Martin Barnes gave a talk on Yahoo! GeoPlanet. Exploring Places without Maps
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Mike McKenna - PHP and Internationalisation
This talk gives a brief overview of internationalisation issues, and how they can be designed for using PHP. Topics covered are User Experience Design faux pas, dealing with
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